Improvement in wheel plows and cultivators



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Wheel Flows and Cultivators.

Patented Sept. 8,1874.

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' No.154',835. Patented Sept.8,1874.

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ADOLPH F. OARLSO'N, CHARLES SHIPPS, AND -WILLIAM OAMRON, OF ATTIOA, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHEEL PL'OW'S AND CULTIVATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,835, dated September 8, 1874; application filed March 23, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ADOLP'H F. CARL- SON, QHAS. SHIPPS, and WILLIAM OAMRON, of Attica, in the county of Fountain and in the State of Indiana, have invented certain new and V useful Improvements in Wheel Plow and Cultivator; and do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and. to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of our invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a combined breaking and corn plow, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth. h

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our invention appertains to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of our plow. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same. Fig. 3 is a front view, showing the double-tree and its attachments. Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 are detached views of certain parts thereof.

A represents/the tongue, on top of which, near the rear end, is firmly bolted the center of the axle B. The ends of the axle are bent downward at right angles for a suitable distance, and from the extreme lower ends project suitable spindles, upon which the wheels 0 O are placed. The axle is braced from the inner end of each spindle by a brace, G, to the tongue A. E is the drivers seat, attached on the rear end of the tongue A. D represents the double-tree, pivoted on top of the tongue, and having its ends bent downward, as shown. To each end of the double-tree D is attached a bent and twisted bar, D, one end of which is riveted or bolted to the under side of the double-tree, a short distance from the side of the tongue, and extends vertically downward, then twisted and bent to pass horizontally to the end of the double-tree, near which it is again twisted, bent forward, and fastened to the lower end of the double-tree. The lower front end of the bar D forms a hook, a, to which the single-tree H is connected. To the horizontal part of the bar D is attached a hook-coupling, b, which passes under the bar and the hook part, around the front edge to the top of the same, and fastenedby apin, b, the whole so arranged as to allow the coupling to turn on the pivot. The rear end of the coupling 11 is twisted and pivoted in a vertical slot in the front end of the beam of the cultivator-plow G. V

The'eultivator-plows G G may be constructed in any of the known and usual ways, and therefore need no description here.

These plows, by means of the couplings b, as described, can be moved up and down, and laterally, on the pivots I). They may also be adjusted out or in, as desired, by simply chan ging the pivot-pins b in diiferent holes upon the bar D. Each plow G is provided with a bail, e, which is connected to a bent bar or rod, e, attached to a lever,-I. The rod 6 and lever 1 form together a rectangular frame,

which passes over the axle B, the rod fitting in a groove on the rear and under side thereof. When the plows G are in use, the levers I I are raised to a perpendicular position, and slide down on the axle as far as the rod e will permit. By raising the lever up to the lower end, and then turning it overbackward, it will be held in this position, and hold the plow up out of the ground. To the outer end of one of the bars D in the double-tree is attached one end of a chain, h, which passes back under the axle over the rear end of the tongue, and forward again under the axle, its other end being attached to the outer end of the other bar, D. On the tongue is a pin, '6, upon which either one of the links of the chain, at or near the middle, may be attached. By means of this chain and pin the draft of the horses may be perfectly equalized. J represents a stirrup, the ends of which are bent in hook form, and placed in circumferential grooves on the axle B, one upon each side of thetongue, and they are held in said grooves by means of set-screws ff. These set-screws only prevent the stirrup from coming oil the axle, but do not in any way interfere with its turning on the axle. In the stirrup J are hung two arms, J J, the lower ends of which are connected by pins f f, one above and the other below the beam of a breaking-plow, K, and the former of said pins in. front of, and the latter in rear of, the standard of said plo'w. The front end of said plow-beam has two short bars or ears, m m, attached, one on each side, and to these are pivoted curved bars m m, the upper ends of which are pivoted, by a pin or bolt, m to the downward bent ends of a longitudinally-slotted bar, m attached to the under side of the tongue A. By adjusting the bar m to the right or left the plow K is adjusted to take more or less land, as desired. On the side of the tongue A is pivoted a hand-lever, L, the lower end of which is, by a rod, L connected with an arm, L projecting from the stirrup J. By means of this lever, and its connections, the plow K is raised to any desired height, and held by means of a latch, L catching in a pin or loop, a, on theside of the lever L. H is the double-tree, at the front end of the beam of the breaking-plow K.

In breaking ground, the breaking-plows are used alone; but in cultivating the breakingplows are removed, and the cultivating-plows are put on instead, so as to form a straddlerow cultivator.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'- r 1. The bent and twisted bars D, attached rear side, all substantially as and for the pur poses herein set forth.

4. The combination of the circumferentiallygrooved axle B, stirrup J, with hooks formed at its ends, the set-screws ff, adapted to carry bars J J, pins f f, and breaking-plow'K, all

substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth. 1

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands this 36. day of February, 1874..

ADOLPH F. OARLSON.

CHARLES SHIPPS.

WILLIAM OAMRON.

Witnesses:

ISAAC E. SoHooNovER, THoMAs MILFORD. 

